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Eco Factor: Portable laboratory to test algae strains for bio-fuel. The latest developments in bio-fuel generation has allowed scientists to produce bio-fuel from something as common as algae. However, the research to find the most productive...

Eco Factor: Low-carbon bio-fuel made from coffee. Caffeine is not considered great for your health, but it can do wonders for the environment, your pocket and your car if new research conducted by researchers at the University of Nevada at Reno is.

Eco Factor: Fungus can answer fuel crisis with a faster way to produce diesel from plants. Gliocladium Roseum, or simply “Magic Fungus” for researchers finding new ways to refill our fossil fuel reserves, is an organism which resides inside...

Taking sustainable urban farming to new heights, the Science Barge is one very different barge that floats on New York's Hudson river. This barge produces food that's sufficient for 25-30 people for one full year, in a sustainable way. To get...

With issues concerning the environment becoming a prominent topic of discussion even on coffee tables, it’s hard to believe how oblivious we are to the energy that shopping malls need. The malls that we hop around for shopping and rejuvenation..

Blimps are certainly fascinating and more so with the colourful commercial ones. But how essential are they? Current commercial airplane operations spend $100 Billion each year on fuel. Giving it a brief thought, is it worth all the money and...

You must have seen the trilogy? Well, at least one, right? Personally speaking I’m not too fond of it. (But then I’m not really fond of many things, so that’s that) But I surely was impressed by the landscape. It was captivating...

After exploiting and exploring the agricultural lands and crops for bio-diesel, it is now the turn for the poultry and farm byproducts to serve the environment. Making bio-diesel from fat is not a new concept, but commercializing it will not just solve...

A new method has been developed that can produce enough fuel to power all cars in America, according to U.S. scientists. The method is capable of fueling the needs of other transport forms as well. It recycles all the carbon dioxide (CO2) usually..

The Public Works Department's diesel vehicles of Cheshire will soon be powered by the renewable energy source - biodiesel. With the founding of BioPur, earlier this year, the company is now capable of producing 450,000 to 1.5 million gallons of biodiesel.